The excerpts of Gezi Opera "Burning Books" are selected and sent by Xiamen Gezi Opera Research Center. Bian Yingchuan shot "The new generation of actors are out of touch, and local operas are generally facing this problem." Lin Dehe, director of the Xiamen Gezi Opera Research Center (formerly known as Xiamen Gezi Opera Troupe), said in an interview with reporters. The final of the 16th Fujian Provincial Drama Narcissus Award kicked off on March 1. According to the arrangement of the competition, the final will last for 12 days. On the same day of the 7th, the contestants from Xiamen Art School and Xiamen Gezi Opera Research Center made their appearance at Fuming Theater in Fuzhou City, with a strong local flavor of southern Fujian. Gezi Opera, also known as Xiang Opera, also known as Children's Opera, is one of the five major operas in Fujian, and was selected as the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage in 2006. It is based on folk stories and uses Minnan dialect for singing and speaking. It is a valuable cultural resource with local characteristics and international influence in Minnan region. A tune resonates with both sides. Lin Dehe said that Gezi Opera, rooted in the mainland and formed in Taiwan, is a local opera jointly cultivated by the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. It has a short history of 100 years, but in the roundabout and tactful melody, it interprets the joys and sorrows of the world with local accent and feeling. In 2008, the "Love of Butterfly" jointly created by Xiamen Gezi Opera Research Center and Taiwan Tang Meiyun Gezi Opera Troupe appeared, which is the first comprehensive cooperation between the two sides of the Taiwan Straits to create a large-scale Gezi Opera repertoire. The theatrical circles on both sides of the Taiwan Straits call it "a milestone in the development of the art of Gezi Opera", and the Taiwanese media call it "an ice-breaking trip". Lindehe said that since then, there has been more and more close exchanges between Gezi Opera artists on both sides. Because of the "cross-strait" nature of Gezi Opera, the local opera has developed rapidly in a short period of 100 years. Linde and sighed, "Now that old actors are retiring in batches, the training of new opera players needs a long period. Who will follow?"? The troupe has been worried. "Next year, like me, there will be more than a dozen retired actors in the '60s' generation." Yang Wanting (the first from the right), a student of the Gezi Drama Class of Xiamen Art School, is arranging makeup and hair for her classmates. Ye Qiuyun has no one to shoot. How can he play? It is the consensus of all actors, musicians and screenwriters that opera talents cannot be cut off. In 2018, Xiamen Gezi Opera Research Center cooperated with Xiamen Art School to carry out six-year junior college training. In 2024, this group of students will graduate. Zhuang Hairong, deputy director of the Xiamen Gezi Opera Research Center, told the reporter that in order to enable this group of students to grasp the essence of Gezi Opera as soon as possible, it can be said that they are cultivating with the strength of the whole group. The center has sent excellent actors into the campus for hands-on teaching. The way of "leading the industry with business, leading the work with drama, and leading the new with the old" is very helpful for their growth. Yang Wanting, one of Zhuang Hairong's students in the Gezi Drama Class of the "Post 00" Xiamen Art School, who is arranging makeup and hair for her classmates, participated in the performance of the excerpt of the Gezi Drama "Ding Shan Wailing" that afternoon, playing the role of Xue Dingshan. As for Zhuang Hairong's words, "take business with business, take drama with work, and take old with new", Yang Wanting said that she benefited a lot. Zhuang Hairong is good at cross-dressing, and Yang Wanting also likes this business. Zhuang Hairong has directed Yang Wanting to select passages from opera such as "The Eighteen Farewells" and "The Crying of Dingshan". Yang Wanting said: "In